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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

A Layered Cake for Bake Along 1st Anniversary

It is our Free and Easy Bake Along 1st Anniversary! I would like to thank our co hosts, Joyce from Kitchen Flavours who first initiated this bake together and also Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids, both of whom at one point we were all completely strangers to now have become wonderful friends. I'm very glad that i had the opportunity to meet Joyce and Zoe in person last year, something that i've always been looking forward to after all those communications through blogs and emails. Never was there an awkward or uncomfortable moment talking to them..you know, Joyce has a very cheerful and bubbly personality, always makes me laugh and Zoe, a very fun and sporting person, giving me so much warmth when i met her. Believe me, we do have our differences at times but i would call that good differences that we are able to understand each other more and enable us to be more honest in our opinions. They are always so kind and helpful to me, guiding me how to do this and that, coordinating the bake along and so on.

I'm not going to write the entire recipe making this cake but included here are the links where i had earlier sourced from. It's a white cake filled with layers of lemon curd and swiss meringue buttercream. While i find that the white sponge is a little dense for my liking, the tangy lemon curd and the smooth buttercream complements each other very well. Initially what i wanted to do for its decorations were piped flowers everywhere surrounding the whole cake but it was already too ugly with me just piping a few of them , my fault, my piping skills...uurrgh...so i ended up doing a shapeless, nameless design..really i dont know what i was piping! LOL!

Sponge cake - Dorie's Perfect Party Cake taken from here. I used two 8 inch pan, cut each cake horizontally into 2 slices each. I used 3 slices instead of 4.Lemon curd - same as what i did for my Pavlova. I made this few times already, very nice.Swiss Meringue buttercream - sourced from Crumb Boss and Wendy's blog. It's my first time making swiss meringue buttercream, made 1/2 recipe of crumbboss for filling and 1 recipe of wendy's for decoration.

64 comments:

Happy 1st Anniversary to Bake Along! Oh love it how to swirl the ribbon over the cake. So pretty and elegant. The colour looks so gorgeous to me too. About your piping skill, it is very much better than us dy. Great Job Lena. I haven't post up mine maybe tomorrow.

wow..happy anniversary to Bake Along, Though never had the chance to participate yet, but glad to know so many aspiring bakers are coming together for a common purpose ! And yes, your cake is beautifully decorated, even though you dunno what you are piping ! I think it's even good enough for sale !

Happy 1st Anniversary to our Bake-Along! Thank you for being my baking partner! Same goes to Zoe! I think that by corresponding more with the two of you, we are beginning to think about the same things sometimes! I wanted to bake Strawberry Shortcake, even bought the strawberries, now I saw Zoe posts on Strawberry cake! And after my strawberries got eaten, I wanted to make Dorie's perfect party cake, even bought the raspberrry jam for that! Again, not enough time! See the co-indicidences! I was surprised when I saw both yours and Zoe's bakes! Hahaha!Your cake looks beautiful, Lena, nice changes you've made! I'm glad I made the right decision to email you the first time! Thank you, pal!Here's to our second year of baking together, Cheers

Just dropped by Joyce's blog before visiting yours... Got to say again I was glad that I was thick-skinned at first to introduce myself to you at first. Then, funny too that I just rocked up to Joyce saying that here I am joining you gals for this bake-along. Can't believe that I'm so thick-skinned. LOL! Although we have been baking-along and knowing each other for just one year, we seems to know each other for ages!

Your lemon curd layered cake looks amazing! I can see that this is truly your style of cake. After baking-along for a year, I think we have all uniquely displayed our own style and taste in our bakes. Got to be thick-skinned (again) to say that all looks awesome at the end of the day!

Lena , Happy 1st Anniversary to your Bake-Along ! I'll join if I can make a decent frosting or a decent layered cake ! lol But will surely join some other time ;D And what a gorgeous and scrumptious layered cake you've made for this occasion ! :D

Congrats my dear friend and wish you, Joyce and Zoe many more milestones in the years ahead. I'm glad to know many others through this event. My best wishes to Bake Along on your 1st anniversary! Your cake is beautifully decorated.

Happy First Anniversary to our dear BakeAlong. Your cake is gorgeous and very elegant, even though you used the word "ugly" in describing it somewhere in post....now we dont call our babies ugly. always remember that!Cheers to you, zoe and joyce for a spectacular ifrst year and many more to come..P.S. will surely join in before the deadline :D

hi Lena, so envy u could meet up with Joyce and Zoehope I can meet 3 of u too somedayhhmm... Bake Along member gathering sounds fun huh? :)your cake is pretty, Lena, as usualnever mind the piping, i still find it so classy :)happy anniversary to Bake Along!

joyce:looking back, i'm glad that i did not reject your idea. i know, there have been so many coincidences that we wanted to do the same thing..you said twins mah.. haha!

zoe: it's good to be thick skinned sometimes otherwise we just miss the opportunities! eh but i think i need to be thick skinned and claimed that all our bakes are fantastic..you know i seldom say that!! LOL!

yvonne: hey, i'm very glad that you managed to make it for the last bake along and 2 entries too! thanks a lot, hope to see more of your bakes, not just only for bake along..:)

elin: thank you my friend! quite a lot of buttercream here:)

amelia: hey, dont worry..just join whenever you like, the most important is that we keep in touch!

love2dine: thank you!

hody : thank you for dropping by and thank you so much!

chris: yeah, it's already one year. Initially we didnt extend the baking to everyone, so very few people actually aware of it :)

anne: thank you, join us when you see something that you might like to bake and of course, when you hv time :)

anncoo: hey, no apologies needed. Just join us when you are free, ya?

jeannie: haha! i tried not to take photos from the top, that one looks not so nice..thanks anyway and thanks for your support given to this bake along!

eileen180: thank you very much! i'm glad that you are also a member of THB, guess we will be baking together very often now!

anuja: i'm very happy to know you, you hv been very supportive to our events and very happy to know that we are also co members of THB. ok, i'll try not to call our babies ugly! haha!

I am a silent reader of yours for quite a while. Had never bothered to leave you a messsage but must say I think we strike a similar character after reading most of your posts. This round, thought I must definitely write you something 'cos I couldnt stop laughing after you commented about you not really knowing what you were piping. Sometimes, I had similar experiences too.

jeannie sim: thank you for leaving a comment this time so i know i hv a silent reader by the name of jeannie sim! oh yes, on the piping..i seldom do piping and decoration on my cakes and very little practise, this is not what i wanted but the more i piped, the more out of shape it becomes! haha! and i just want to quickly finish piping before the buttercream gets soft, so i just simply squeezed the cream here and there!

Happy Anniversary to Bake Along! These cake is so lovely , love the frosting & the ribbon is a great idea! Looks so GLAM & stunning! I was cracking my head off on how to decorate mine! End up with a weird cake! LOL Yup! This time I've join in fun coz I love birthday & anniversary! Great excuse to bake another cake !heheheh

Oh, Lena, I thought it was your blog's first anniversary, but I see its the Bake Along's first anniversary. I must check out this blog hop...sounds fabulous (I think I already mentioned that before)

Your cake is spectacular, golden, and with a gorgeous gold buttercream swirls on top, and I just love, lemon curd filling. I clicked over to the source to save the recipe!Happy Anniversary, and congrats on the gorgeous cake!

Lena, this is such a beautiful cake I can't keep my eyes off from it. That's my favorite part of blogging is meeting new people that I can call my friends. Even if I can't bake I love to join in and ooo and awww over it! It makes me smile! :) :D

elisabeth: thanks very much. Lots of buttercream in here! hope that one day when you hv time you can join us baking together!

cathleen: thank you, dear!

wendy: dont hv to say sorry, crazy! you must be busy with the MFF thing ! hv to plan and cook somemore, i pengsan! Yeah lor abt the cake, that's why i checked with you see if i made a mistake somewhere or not :)

sonia: you silly! dont hv to say sorry..just join when you feel like to :)

love2cook: thank you very much!

louise: yes, it's a very meaningful event for me and the best thing is get to know so many of the new bakers.

gert: you must be kidding me, i'm sure you can do decoration on your cakes..maybe much better than me..come show your skills! ha!

chaya: thank you very much, i think we really need a lot of practise on the piping to be comfortable doing that..i hardly make a cake like this and also hv to make sure the consistency of the cream is nice to be able to pipe..i must practise more too!

Hi Lena,No worries,Your cake is just beautifully frosted. From the view of your picture..lolHonestly it is pretty. Happy birthday to Blog Along.I am so blessed to get to know you , Zeo, Joyce and other blogging friends from Blog Along. Same as Janine, I too was wondering about the linky thing,, how to add into my post??I think I did it wrongly the last time..lol

tze: dont hv to say sorry, hope you can find time to join us baking together! have you moved in to your new house already?

ola: thanks!

alan: glad to hear that..hopefully you can join us someday!

muimui: thanks for your compliments. as for the linky tool, you can chk janine's latest post, i've have replied hers there. IT's not difficult at all, just hv to do that in HTML mode. Let me know if you encounter any problems doing this or you can write me an email at wflena@yahoo.com